Windows 7 users to receive notifications about end of support date, encouraged to upgrade

[texasrattler]

Doom, eve online, civ 5&6. Basically any game that uses Java or open GL. Any unreal or unity game can be made to run on Linux very easily. I have gotten crysis 3 to run on wine, but with a noticeable performance hit.

Also, you can very easily merge all those comments into one with copy and pasting. I guess you're frustration with Linux comes from your inability to copy and paste....

You can simply just read each one. Sorry its to hard for you.

Btw you just named games that are old n no one cares about. Crysis 3 lol, hasnt been relevant in like 5 years, even then not many cared.

I have no issue with Linux, I use MS as thats what I like and dont have issues with it. Devs wont be supporting any of the games gamers want on Linux so it wont matter anyways.

 

[captaincranky]

It wasnt genius. MS changed things to make it happen (Note, added DX-12 to Win 7).

Are you trying to claim they didn't know how to do it before they released Windows 10?

Because if not, that's not genius either, it's just pointlessly stating the patently obvious.

Quite frankly, I've beern saying M$ could have added DX-12 to Windows 7, ever since Windows 10 was released.

They just dangled DX-12 in front of you gamer boys as bait. And boy oh boy, did you ever chomp down on that hook...

 

[BSim500]

It wasnt genius. MS changed things to make it happen.

Microsoft changed very little as the underlying code-base is remarkably the same (nothing like the Win95 vs NT transition). If anything adding DX12 to W7 is more a panic reaction by MS fearing that the longer W7 stays mainstream, the more likely it is Vulkan will steal DX12's crown for being the default next gen API given that it works on literally everything inc W7-10, Linux, Steam OS, Android, Switch, Google's new "Yeti" platform, rumored to include PS5 too (and often with far higher performance / optimization than half the DX12 turds that ended up running slower on DX12 than DX11...) You only have to look at id Tech 7 (uses Vulkan exclusively), plus full Vulkan support (and pro-cross-platform stance) from Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, etc, to see which way the industry wind is blowing.

"The reason DX12 remains locked into just W10 and XBox only is purely because they need to change stuff". Come on man, you're not THAT gullible... ;-)

 

[hahahanoobs]

Good luck running new CPU's on W7....

 

[Misagt]

I have been using Linux mint as my daily driver for almost 3 years now, I couldn't be happier. Gaming is a non issue now if you don't mind a few weeks of a steep learning curve, but it's not even that steep anymore. 90% of the time, especially on new games, binaries get downloaded and installed with one mouse click. You don't have to use the command line....unless, of course, you want to

I have young kids so time is limited it's the only reason I built my new pc on windows 10. I don't buy or use the windows app store, I've never even opened it. This PC is probably my last windows product.

Windows 10 is so broken.

Every update breaks my system
Its so annoying to get your network to show files now
No privacy.
No control over updates. (Although putting it on a drive with no space prevents updates)


I could go on but I have a life. Hopefully I'll be on linux someday soon.

 

[captaincranky]

Good luck running new CPU's on W7....

I'm running an i5- 6600K on a Z-170 platform. Since I don't game, that's plenty new and plenty fast enough for me.

Besides, it only takes a G-41 and a Pentium E-6300 to win arguments here.

 

[yRaz]

I have young kids so time is limited it's the only reason I built my new pc on windows 10. I don't buy or use the windows app store, I've never even opened it. This PC is probably my last windows product.

Windows 10 is so broken.

Every update breaks my system
Its so annoying to get your network to show files now
No privacy.
No control over updates. (Although putting it on a drive with no space prevents updates)


I could go on but I have a life. Hopefully I'll be on linux someday soon.

I literally just built a new PC last night and put windows 10 on, it's been nothing but problems. 1700x and a 1070ti, these stuff should work flawlessly, but I had to blindly go into safemode because my display said unrecognized signal. Then my wireless wouldn't work right. W10 wouldn't let it run any daster than 380KB/s (I'm paying for 100mbps and I test the card in mint and it worked fine. I then went to adust it to 5Ghz, W10 wouldn't let me. I wanted to select a wireless channel, it only let me select a range.

I seriously thinking of putting Linux Mint on it. Im flabergasted that an OS that took a tech degree to use 10 years ago runs better than the most widely installed OS today that has a billion dollar company developing it

Get your kids into Linux Mint, if Linux was this easy when I was a kid I'd be a god with it today. You don't have to use the terminal for anything, but once you learn how easy it is to use, well, you're in for a wild ride.

The best part about mint is that if I get frustrated and can't do something with the teminal I can just install stuff natively as if things were an EXE.

Spend 10 minutes, learn how to use a tar.gz and just forget about how hard Linux is to use. The linux Mint Cinnamon GUI is my favorite, but you can get something that looks like Ubuntu if that's more your style. The Cinnamon GUI CLOSELY resembles windows

 

[kmo911]

You can run it in system reqierment. 2gb x64 are now requierd.

And 1 gb for x32 x86 version. windows 10 are nice when it work. but it lacks the clean look of vista xp w7.
Somehow getting win 8 8.1 in are nicer but you will be missing dx12.
End of support makes in still the best in those years it was used.
Vista sp1 sp2 ??.
Now if you can Run win 3 11 you still good. server versions 2003 and so on. corporate win xp was nice too. but it stopped at dx9.0c. no dx10 suppoer. you can run stalker in dx10 11 mode. most easy are just run unbutu live dvd. in and wait for it comes up. then use it for a while or leave it on. no virus trojan can attac it if you get infected. lure the virus trojans and then paw out with the live dvd and reboot to windows xx se-win 10.
and en of support for nescape ie 6 7 8 9 1x. easy but not forgotten.
win 9x se had a nice ie netscape use. but there are still set as default browser. so annnoooyyiiinnnggggg.